Longish article on Yahoo and the future of their search products from earlier this month.

But for Yahoo really to build something of consequence in search and personalization, it’s got a lot of hurdles to overcome. “Yahoo has not been able to figure out how to take their data and combine it with third-party data to create something meaningful,” said Sameet Sinha, a senior analyst at B. Riley and Co.Not to mention the fact that Yahoo doesn’t have its own operating system — on mobile or desktop — to jump-start the adoption of any search tool.